New Books in Military History
Sarah Stockwell, “The British End of the British Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sarah Stockwell
The British End of the British Empire

Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network February 18, 2019 Mark Klobas

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire. While most histories of this process have examined it from the perspective of high politics and focused on matters of state construction, in The British End of the... Read More
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, “Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars” (Georgetown UP, 2019)
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley
Insurgent Women
Female Combatants in Civil Wars
Georgetown University Press, 2019

New Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology February 11, 2019 Beth Windisch

Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2019) investigates the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end. The book focuses on three case studies of asymmetric conflicts. Jessica Trisko Darden contributes research looking at Ukraine, Alexis Henshaw discusses... Read More
Fred S. Naiden, “Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Fred S. Naiden
Soldier, Priest, and God
A Life of Alexander the Great
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network February 8, 2019 Mark Klobas

The Macedonian king Alexander III is best remembered today for his many martial accomplishments and the empire he built from them. Yet as Fred S. Naiden details in Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great (Oxford University Press, 2018), this ignores what for his subjects were his... Read More
Monica Kim, “The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Monica Kim
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
The Untold History
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network January 29, 2019 Beth Windisch

Monica Kim provides a fresh look at the Korean War with a people-centered approach that studies the experiences of prisoners of war. As the first major conflict after the 1949 Geneva Conventions, POW repatriation during the Korean War became a new battleground for the recognition of state sovereignty and a... Read More
Noah Coburn, “Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Noah Coburn
Under Contract
The Invisible Workers of America's Global War
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 24, 2019 Jeffrey Bristol

Noah Coburn‘s Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America’s Global War (Stanford University Press, 2018) is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort. These men and women serve as laborers, cooks,... Read More

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